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Jun 21st, 2009 | Janetti Chon

Women2, in conversation: Gray Area Foundation

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Gray Area Foundation for the the Arts

GAFFTA founder and executive director Josette Melchor shares stories -

Since 2005, she has been working towards opening three art spaces in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. She speaks about the importance of arts education, choosing a location, and what her organization teaches artists about digital marketing.

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May 8th, 2009 | Janetti Chon

Women 2.0 Interview: Jen Bekman, 20×200

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Jen Bekman thought she was on the perfect path working at Netscape in 1999. Today, Jen owns the tremendously popular New York gallery that shares her name, writes a blog called Personism, and is the founder of the international photo competition, Hey, Hot Shot!. Her latest endeavor is 20×200, limited-edition prints and photos available online at ridiculously affordable prices.

Join us as we ask her about starting over, finding the right project for yourself, and curating versus crowdsourcing.

Jen Bekman Projects, including the gallery and its exhibitions, 20×200, Personism, Hey, Hot Shot! and Jen herself, have been featured in numerous publications, nationally and internationally. Jen frequently lectures and participates on panels about art, technology, media and marketing. A popular reviewer at top portfolio review events, Jen was recently honored with the Rising Star Award at the Griffin Museum of Photography’s annual Focus Awards and named an Innovator of the Year by American Photo magazine. Her writing has appeared in GOOD Magazine and photo-eye Booklist.

Recently, Jen was a speaker at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco where she presented on Corralling the Crowdsourced Community.

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Oct 13th, 2008 | Janetti Chon

Embracing digital art

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At Web 2.0 Expo New York last month The Barbarian Group contributed an interactive digital installation for our conference guests to enjoy.

The McCleod Mirror is based on the concept of being an individual. And that to know oneself, we have to see ourselves.

The original concept was an installation for a Nokia store, where they made a processing-based software application that took the input from a webcam and assembled a mosaic of the image from the webcam, using a series of pre-stored images, text, and previous input from the webcam. All the source images were the same size, and square, which felt a bit limiting, but the video made for a nice effect.

The Barbarian Group them partnered up with the McLeod Residence, a new type of interactive art gallery and space in Seattle, WA. They tweaked their code and got the mirrors working with images of different sizes, creating an entirely new sensation.

Guests at Web 2.0 Expo took photos of their reflected images and posted it to our Flickr group.

(Thanks to Duncan, one of our official event photographers for setting that up for us)

We’re a big fan of the digital arts community - and a few months back during Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco we coordinated with Gray Area Gallery, an SF-based visual arts gallery with their launch of Gray Area Beacon, a temporary art space in SOMA. They, in turn, shared some of the great digital work of Aaron Koblin in our bloggers lounge.

Aaron is the genius behind the sheep market and his piece Flight Patterns, a visualization of parsed and plotted FAA data, was added to the Museum of Modern Art in New York’s permanent collection.

For Web 2.0 Expo Europe we had this idea to create “virtual break rooms” … for folks who needed some down time while on-site. Unfortunately my artist had to take a trip overseas so it doesn’t seem like we’ll make it in time for the event but… I’ll stop from giving it all away, just in case.

Berlin in particular is a city bubbling with artists but the world is our playground and the Web is everywhere. So if you are a digital artist and want to share some of your work with us - either via web or perhaps for some future installation. . . leave a comment, share your art… let us know.